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Derek Kirk Kim

Biography

Derek Kirk Kim

Derek Kirk Kim is the award-winning author of SAME DIFFERENCE, THE ETERNAL SMILE (with Gene Luen Yang), and GOOD AS LILY (with Jesse Hamm). He has also contributed to numerous anthologies including FLIGHT (Vol. 1), FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL, and BIZARRO WORLD. His web-TV series, MYTHOMANIA, loosely based on TUNE, is currently in its first season.

He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Derek Kirk Kim

Books by Derek Kirk Kim

Unemployed and living with his overbearing parents, Andy struggles to keep sight of the lofty goals that once drove him. But it's hard, even when he reconnects with his old art school crush, Yumi. Things look better, briefly, with Yumi back in the picture and an actual job offer on the table. But then Andy takes the job offer --- to work at a zoo --- and finds himself in an alternate dimension. The zoo? Is run by aliens. The exhibit? Is him.